From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 18:19:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from endymion.skorga.org (cr157951-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.151.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755CD37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erothwell@callgtn.com) Received: from localhost (bacchusrx@localhost) by endymion.skorga.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7F1JW300692; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:19:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from erothwell@callgtn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: endymion.skorga.org: bacchusrx owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:19:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Erik Rothwell X-X-Sender: To: Matt Payne Cc: Subject: Re: FTP install via rogers@home - anyone successfully done this? In-Reply-To: <20010815005143.1485837B40A@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20010814211217.Q675-100000@endymion> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Matt Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install via FTP over a rogers@home cable connection. Rogers > uses DHCP, but also requires that the hostname (ie: cr123456-a) be present > when requesting network info. During the install process, this doesn't seem > to be possible. Am I wrong or is there some way to get around this? > > Thanks, > Matt I've done it-- but not through DHCP. You'll probably need to set the connection up "statically." If you're running Windows on your machine right now, you can jot down the appropriate values (IP, netmask, gateway, DNS) from winipcfg. Otherwise, you can usually call their technical support line to get the relevant information -- though they may give you a hard time about it. There's not a very good reason to run DHCP on Rogers@Home anyways-- my IP address was not changed for a year or so after I signed up. It changed after that only because I moved. HTH, Erik. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message